[203] “C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la guerre.”—General Bosquet to Mr. Layard: Kinglake, Invasion of the Crimea, (Edinburgh, 1868) Vol. IV. p. 369, note.
[204] Annual Message, December 1, 1862.
[205] Report of Special Commissioner of Revenue, December, 1869: Executive Documents, 41st Cong. 2d Sess., H. of R., No. 27, p. XIII.
[206] Statistics of the United States in 1860, Eighth Census, Miscellaneous, pp. 294, 295.
[207] Report of Special Commissioner of Revenue, December, 1869: Executive Documents, 41st Cong. 2d Sess., H. of R., No. 27, p. VI.
[208] Ibid.
[209] Executive Documents, 41st Cong. 2d Sess., H. of R., No. 2, pp. XIII-XVIII.
[210] Statement of the Public Debt, January 1, 1870.—Purchases of bonds in excess of the sum required for the sinking fund first appear in the Statement of August 1, 1869, and as then amounting, with the accrued interest, to $15,110,590; thence to January 1, 1870, the monthly average, including interest, was a little short of $10,000,000.
[211] Act of March 3, 1864: Statutes at Large, Vol. XIII. p. 13.
[212] Act of February 25, 1863: Statutes at Large, Vol. XII. pp. 665-82.